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Paperback. A parrot who speaks of love, a police dog who's a Buddhist, a microbe with an inferiority complex, a chameleon hoping to find himself, a scorpion with the fastest sting in the West? Viskovitz is each of these animals and many more; yet it is the human condition with all its highs and lows which is portrayed in these hilarious metamorphoses. Translator(s): Casey, John. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 116. 160 pages. Viskovitz is each of these animals and many more; yet it is the human condition with all its highs and lows which is portrayed in these hilarious metamorphoses. You're an Animal Viskovitz is a whirlwind of ironic fables, a tour de force of comic inventiveness and intelligence unlike anything that you have read before. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 185 x 128 x 12. Weight: 116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841954936
- ISBN
- 9781841954936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. Translator(s): Chalmers, Martin. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 118 pages, 39 color plates. BIC Classification: AJB; FYB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 13. .
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424440
- ISBN
- 9780857424440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.28
€ 23.99
€ 19.28
Paperback. How can a girl possibly have married a lion? How can a man have a tress growing out of his head? And how can a woman have children made of wax? This title deals with these questions. Illustrator(s): Holwill, Naomi. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 5AK; FQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164. Folktales from Africa. Adult Edition. 192 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 5AK; FQ; FYB. Dimension: 201 x 140 x 13. Weight: 162.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841956299
- ISBN
- 9781841956299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. A collection of short fiction that showcases the author's application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies of human frailty. It includes stories: "The Queen of Spades", "The Negro of Peter the Great", and, "The Captain's Daughter". Translator(s): Edmonds, Rosemary. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140441192
- ISBN
- 9780140441192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
€ 17.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. Editor(s): Kahn, Andrew. Translator(s): Myers, Alan. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538652
- ISBN
- 9780199538652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925498387
- ISBN
- 9781925498387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. Alexei Sayle is back, with a new collection of dark, timely, and comic tales. These dazzlingly written stories cut right to the heart of the modern world Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340819449
- ISBN
- 9780340819449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860495847
- ISBN
- 9781860495847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. A collection of short stories by the author of novels Girl Meets Boy, Like, The Accidental, Hotel World and There But For The. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Ed(AsSuch)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141018010
- ISBN
- 9780141018010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, just be chance and coincidence? Presenting connections and missed connections, this collection of stories is an inquiry into things ranging from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness, and love. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140296808
- ISBN
- 9780140296808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Wood, Sarah. Num Pages: 96 pages, full colour artwork. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Full Circle Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957152823
- ISBN
- 9780957152823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.50
€ 24.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, the author explores the ways and whys of storytelling. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141038018
- ISBN
- 9780141038018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? This is about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, and more. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241974599
- ISBN
- 9780241974599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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€ 10.45
paperback. Num Pages: 354 pages. BIC Classification: FYB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- At Bay Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780991761036
- ISBN
- 9780991761036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 22.20
€ 32.99
€ 22.20
paperback. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Random House
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022753
- ISBN
- 9780099287865
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. A collection of short stories from Alice Walker. Opening with an account of her early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in racist Mississippi, the collection goes on to cover themes of idealism, lost love and hope. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Women's Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0000620
- ISBN
- 9780704346888
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 214
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126387
- ISBN
- 9781897126387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.75
€ 20.99
€ 15.75
Paperback. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention. Translator(s): Galasso, Regina. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Swan Isle Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780983322078
- ISBN
- 9780983322078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.45
€ 19.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indigo Dreams Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909357105
- ISBN
- 9781909357105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.36
€ 12.36
Paperback. These short stories are set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. They are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, the unbreakable bonds between man and woman, parent and child. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099422327
- ISBN
- 9780099422327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Travel to the revolutionary closing years of 18th century England. Meet Jack Cockshutt, arsonist by trade, returning to rescue his victims and profit from their relief, finding the woman who just might save him. Meet the beauty who castigates her customers with passages from Paine's Rights of Man. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 170
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946317
- ISBN
- 9781908946317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.86
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€ 10.86
paperback. Presents short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, providing depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as insights into the nature of the people. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241955468
- ISBN
- 9780241955468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; FYB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages but otherwise a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0008782
- ISBN
- 9780486280387
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A collection of stories, in which the lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as the stories portray their world as a microcosm of the wider world. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de; Simpson, P. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099982005
- ISBN
- 9780099982005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08